Reboot after Grub kernel selection-- FIXED

agrippa_cash · Last edited by agrippa_cash on Tue May 30, 2006 3:39 am; edited 2 times in total

I decided to upgrade gcc & emerge world this weekend because I think deep down inside I wanted to break something. Now when I reboot I get a brief black screen followed by a rebooting. Grub comes up fine and then I don't see any messages until the POST.

Any ideas?
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NeddySeagoon · Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 6:16 pm Post subject:

agrippa_cash,

It sounds like your kernel is made for the wrong CPU
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agrippa_cash · Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 6:59 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the speedy reply, but my make.conf is the same as before and neither my older, nor my newly recompiled kernels boot. Maybe I etc-update-ed some vital config file? Windows boots fine. I used slax to chroot in and recompile a kernel (which as I mentioned doesn't work either). My make.profile was for x86 2005.1.

UPDATE: I tried adding acpi=off to grub.conf, but it didn't help.

UPDATE2: Grub can't hand off to memtest or back to NTLDR (it use to) so I'm going to reinstall GRUB.
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Athlon xp 1700+;VIA-KT266;512mb RAM;Radeon 9600
-running with udev, hal, dbus, pmount & modular-xorg

agrippa_cash · Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 3:48 am Post subject: Solution

My setup is strange, but I used to reinstall Windows often enough that I use NTLDR to run GRUB. I dd'ed the first 512k of the partition that I installed GRUB on then copied it to my c: and have an entry in boot.ini that points to c:\hda3grub.bin. From GRUB I can go back to NTLDR or run memtest or Linux.

Somehow GRUB got corrupted or else updating GRUB made the current version incompatible with the dd'ed image so I reinstalled GRUB with a boot CD and then I recopied the boot sector to c:\ in order to boot. I also saved the current hda boot sector (MBR) just in case.
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Athlon xp 1700+;VIA-KT266;512mb RAM;Radeon 9600
-running with udev, hal, dbus, pmount & modular-xorg